Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://tripmeetstravel.com. It is run by Samantha and Dominic Milner.

The company which owns the property is called DSKSJ Publishing LTD Medina House, 2 station Road, Bridlington, East Yorkshire YO16 4LZ.

We understand that privacy online is important to users of our Site, especially when conducting business.

This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site (“Visitors”) who visit without transacting business and Visitors who register or purchase  to transact business on the Site and make use of the various services offered or produced by  Trip Meets Travel (collectively, “Services”) (“Authorized Customers”).

“Personally Identifiable Information”

This refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.

What Personally Identifiable Information is collected?

We may collect basic user profile information from all of our Visitors. We collect the following additional information from our Authorized Customers: the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Authorized Customers, the nature and size of the business, and the nature and size of the advertising inventory that the Authorized Customer intends to purchase or sell.

What organizations are collecting the information?

In addition to our direct collection of information, our third party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect this information from our Visitors and Authorized Customers. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use personal information provided to them from Visitors and Authorized Customers. Some of these third parties may be intermediaries that act solely as links in the distribution chain, and do not store, retain, or use the information given to them.

How does the Site use Personally Identifiable Information?

We use Personally Identifiable Information to customize the Site, to make appropriate service offerings, and to fulfill buying and selling requests on the Site. We may email Visitors and Authorized Customers about research or purchase and selling opportunities on the Site or information related to the subject matter of the Site. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to contact Visitors and Authorized Customers in response to specific inquiries, or to provide requested information.

With whom may this information may be shared?

Personally Identifiable Information about Authorized Customers may be shared with other Authorized Customers who wish to evaluate potential transactions with other Authorized Customers. We may share aggregated information about our Visitors, including the demographics of our Visitors and Authorized Customers, with our affiliated agencies and third party vendors. We also offer the opportunity to “opt out” of receiving information or being contacted by us or by any agency acting on our behalf.

How is Personally Identifiable Information stored?

Personally Identifiable Information collected by Trip Meets Travel is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties or employees of Trip Meets Travel, except for use as indicated above.

What choices are available to Visitors regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?

Visitors and Authorized Customers may opt out of receiving unsolicited information from or being contacted by us and/or our vendors and affiliated agencies by responding to emails as instructed, or by contacting us here: https://tripmeetstravel.com/contact-us/ and filling in the contact form.

Our cookie policy
In compliance with the New European Union legislation which comes into effect from: 25th May 2018, we inform you that our website will store some information about your preferences on your own computer inside a tiny file called a ‘cookie’.

A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. The cookie allows the website to “remember” your actions or preferences over time.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like. A third-party website called aboutcookies.org has been setup to help you with instructions how you can do that on various browsers.

We use cookies to:
1) remember your custom display preferences;
2) Suggest any recent searches you’ve made on our site
3) Other usability features including tracking whether you’ve already given your consent to cookies

Enabling cookies from our website is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing and ad experience.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

There may also be other types of cookies created after you’ve visited our website. We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics (User Consent Policy Here) uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Amazon

Amazon provides links in our content which are shown in red and when clicked will take you to the respective Amazon shop.

Contact forms

If you use our contact form you will be asked to fill in your name and email address. After we have got back to you and any issues have been resolved we will then delete any of your information from our website and email services.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Our Website Hosting

Every website has to be hosted as the saying goes to make it live and for people to visit it. At Trip Meets Travel we are hosted by Agathon. Here is a link to our hosting´s privacy policy.

Analytics

We use google analytics service (Privacy Policy Here) to track our website traffic. From 25th may we now anonymize your ip address so we do not have that information.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with anyone but we use third party services known as plugins on our website.

Here is the following list of plugins we use on TripMeetsTravel.com:

The SEO Framework Plugin: This plugin helps us with our search engine optimisation. Privacy Policy

To find out how these sites use your data please click on there name and it will take you to there respective privacy policies.

Contact form 7 – This plugin creates all the contact forms on Tripmeetstravel.com. Here is a link to there privacy policy: https://contactform7.com/privacy-policy/.

Easy Table of Contents – On our blog posts we have a table of contents that can help you navigate through our posts. Here is there contact form to help with any queries about there plugin: https://tocwp.com/contact/

Generatepress – Is our theme and you can see there privacy policy here!

TinyPNG – This plugin helps with the compression of our images and makes them the right size for you to view. Here is there terms of use: https://tinypng.com/terms

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

We do not allow any visitors to open or register an account on TripMeetsTravel.com.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

If you have any specific doubts about your privacy whilst visiting tripmeetstravel.com please contact us through our contact page which can be found here and state what problems you would like resolving: https://tripmeetstravel.com/contact-us/

No personal identifiable information will be gathered from your visit to tripmeetstravel.com unless you specifically say it is ok via our newsletter or email sequences.

CCPA Regulations

Due to the implementation of the CCPA regulations that come into force on the 1st January 2020 Tripmeetstravel.com here is our updated privacy policy.

Tripmeetstravel.com does not sell any information from our customers, website visitors or newsletter subscribers.

Type and Purpose of Collection
We collect information at various points in the Website to facilitate its use by our customers. We use Non-Personal Information to examine our traffic and to view how our customers use the Website.

This type of information will not allow you to be personally identified. For example, we use “cookies”, which contains only certain statistical information. You can instruct your computer to inform you whenever a cookie is being sent, or you can disallow cookies through your web browser.

If you do choose to disallow cookies, your experience on the Website may be diminished, or your ability to choose some of the options on the Website may be limited.
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Sharing Information
We will not sell, rent or disclose to outside parties the information we collect, save and except that we may share the collected information with other parties as follows:

(a) Affiliated Service Providers: We have agreements with various affiliated service providers to facilitate the functioning of the Website, with whom we may share the information we have collected.

Additionally, for example, we may use analytic or marketing services such as Google Analytics, Google Adsense, Taboola, or RevContent, to which collection you hereby unconditionally consent.

(b) Where required by law: We may share the collected information where required by law, specifically in response to a demand from government authorities where such demand meets the legal requirements.

(c) Statistical Analysis: We may share Non-Personal Information and aggregated information with third parties, including but not limited to for advertising or marketing purposes. No Personal Information will be shared in this manner.

(d) Transactions: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition, or in any other situation where Personal Information may be disclosed or transferred as one of our business assets.
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Choices and How To Opt Out Of Interest-Based Advertising

(a) Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising Services This website is a member of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and adheres to the NAI Codes of Conduct as described on the NAI website. This website also adheres to the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Self-Regulatory Principles. For a description of the DAA Program, please visit the DAA website. As described above, this website may use or transfer Device Data that it directly collects or that it receives from this website’s Customers, who may use cookies or non-cookie technologies, to enable advertising that is more tailored to Consumers’ inferred interests, preferences, and locations. This practice is known as interest-based advertising.

(b) Opting Out of Interest-Based Advertising by Third Parties
This website may permit third parties to collect information on its Site and combine that information with other information collected on non-affiliated websites or applications over time. These third parties may use technologies, including cookies and web beacons, to collect information about Consumers’ or Customers’ use of the Site in order to analyze, report on, or customize content or advertising on the this website or on other sites, or to help us operate and improve the Site. To find out more about interest-based advertising in the web environment, and how to opt-out of information collection for this purpose by companies that participate in the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance, visit NAI’s opt-out page or DAA’s Consumer Choice Page.

Trip Meets Travel has entered into and will continue to enter into partnerships and other affiliations with a number of vendors. Such vendors may have access to certain Personally Identifiable Information on a need to know basis for evaluating Authorized Customers for service eligibility.

Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information to Comply with Law.

We will disclose Personally Identifiable Information in order to comply with a court order or subpoena or a request from a law enforcement agency to release information. We will also disclose Personally Identifiable Information when reasonably necessary to protect the safety of our Visitors and Authorized Customers.

How does the Site keep Personally Identifiable Information secure?

All of our employees are familiar with our security policy and practices. The Personally Identifiable Information of our Visitors and Authorized Customers is only accessible to Dominic and Samantha.

We audit our security systems and processes on a regular basis. Sensitive information, such as credit card numbers or social security numbers, is protected by encryption protocols, which has been set in place to protect information sent over the Internet.

While we take commercially reasonable measures to maintain a secure site, electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering and break-ins, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place and we will not be liable to Visitors or Authorized Customers for any such occurrences.

Links

This web site contains links to other web sites. The affiliate links on our website are HIGHLIGHTED like this. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you may be moving to another web site or staying on tripmeetstravel.com if the link is related to the post you are reading, you can check by hovering over the link and checking where it is going to send you. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites, as their privacy policies may differ from ours.

Collection of Personal Information

When visiting Trip Meets Travel, the IP address used to access the site will now from the 25th May 2018 not be logged. This information is purely used to analyse trends, administer the site, track users’ movement and gather broad demographic information for internal use.

Links to Third Party Websites

We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion.

If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of  Trip Meets Travel, then please do not hesitate to contact us at: https://tripmeetstravel.com/contact-us/ and filling in the contact form.